Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Rootwire Music and Arts Festival 2011

This image is from the music festival I went to this summer called Rootwire. It is the band Papadosio's own music festival which they headlined 2 nights, and had an acoustic set one of the days. What is different about this festival than most concerts or other large festivals is that all the bands who perform are also there as a fan and just enjoy themselves with everyone else.They camp and walk around and have conversations with everyone, including the headliner band Papadosio. This image is a fisheye view from above the hill where the mainstage was. This image is so magical, and captured so extroardinarily. It has such a sureal feal to it, but this is actually how it looked at night. All the lights and colors just illuminate the sky. The photographer, Brian Hockensmith, is a huge inspiration to me. He travels to shows all accross the United States and captures the them in such a way ive never seen before. Go to his facebook fan page B.Hockensmith photography "like" it! All his albums are posted on this page, including four albums from just this festival! I advise every photographer or artist to attend a Music & Arts festival because it gives you such inspiration to create something so unique from your own experience and what you took away from it.